SVN cannot set property on a directory

Question

I'm typing via SlikSVN (same happens via TortoiseSVN):

svn propset svn:eol-style native .

From the repository's root folder, and getting

svn: Cannot set 'svn:eol-style' on a directory ('.')

with no further explanation. Googling doesn't seem to help either. How do I set this property?

Answer 1

Well, svn:eol-style only makes sense for files, not directories which don't have the notion of end-of-line. If you want to set the property for all versioned files in the directory, use:

svn propset svn:eol-style native *

or recursively for all versioned files under the current directory and its subdirectories:

svn propset -R svn:eol-style native .

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Edit after the comment:

If you want to automatically set props for new files, edit the svn config file auto-props section to apply properties based on file name patterns.